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There he sat at table with a broken-down laboratory assistant, a lavender college student, a mousy-genteel kleptomaniac widow, a moth-eaten elocutionist, a stale bibliophile who dismissed all ideas with "forgive my sense of humor"—a gallery which should convince almost everybody that Wells, like Dickens, is no caricaturist of English life but a dispenser of literal and horrifying truth. And there Teddy ran foul of two "overripe virgins," bleached Miss Blame and malapropist Miss Birkenhead, who once spent six months in Paris, calls her Paris sugar daddy her faux...
...where the Japanese Army wants to seize airfield's within reach of Japan and Formosa, Japanese reinforcements poured in from east, north and southeast, forming a huge, closing maw. A new spearhead pushed north from the Canton area. China's Chekiang-Kiangsi and Hankow-Canton railroads were eaten up mile by hard-fought mile. Yet Chiang was optimistic...
Surrounded by Eric Larrabee '43, Chief Gardener, and John L. Hoffman '43, who fondly caressed several packages of seeds but refused to comment, Allen explained that the move would help to relieve the agricultural shortage. Some of the vegetables will be eaten by the 'Poonsters to cut House Committee expenses, being in line with the "Buy Lampoon" policy instituted last fall...
...Roman Catholics have been as successful there. In 1844 three of the priests of the first Catholic mission to the islands were eaten by the natives. Two of the priests of the second mission were eaten in 1852. A permanent mission, finally established in 1903, was not found very palatable by the natives-either from the dietetic or theological standpoint-until meteoric young Father Wade (he was then 30) arrived from Providence, R.I., 18 years ago. Within seven years he was made bishop, and since then he has had such success that he has brought...
Last week Lord Woolton (on orders from the Cabinet) went a step further. Partly to conserve more food but mainly to stop the rich going to restaurants for coupon-free meals after their rations at home are all eaten, he banned the serving of food after n p.m., limited the sale of fish, game and poultry to specified days. There was also talk that Lord Woolton would set a price ceiling of five shillings ($1) for restaurant meals...